Cartridge shaped message holder



F. A. LA VECCHIA CARTRIDGE `SHAPED MESSAGE HOLDER Aug. 31, 1954 Filedou. 13, 1951 INVENTOR. FFH/VK n. Liq VECCHI@ Patented Aug. 31, 1954UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE` CARTRIDGE SHAPED MESSAGE HOLDER Frank A. LaVecchia, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Application October 13, 1951, Serial No. 251,236 1 claim. (ol. 226-2) Myinvention relates to message holders, and more particularly to apparatusand a method for assembling message holders of the cartridge type.

The invention is primarily intended as a novelty device for juveniles,in that the cartridge will contain printed messages, on small rolls ofpaper, that will appeal to children.

My invention has for its object the provision of a machine and a methodfor conveniently and cheaply assembling the three parts of the device;that is, the bullet nose, the roll of paper containing a message, andthe cartridge shell.

The single ligure shows a conveyor, partly in section, together with theassembly forms or molds, whereby the bringing of the parts intoassembled relation is facilitated.

A completed cartridge 6 is shown as being discharged from the conveyor,and comprises a shell 1, a nose 8 Within which is contained the paperroll 9 that has a message or the like imprinted thereon.

The apparatus for assembling the cartridge parts comprises conveyorpulleys `lll and Il, one of which is driven, and a conveyor belt I2.'I'he upper run of the belt is supported by a table I3, against sagging.

Recessed blocks I4, only ve of which are here shown, are secured to theconveyor for use in assembling the cartridge parts. `The lower portionsof the recess n each block is shaped to loosely receive the cartridgenose 8 at the rst station, during travel of the conveyor. At the secondstation, the paper roll 9 is dropped `into the nose. The shell 1 is thendropped into the block at the third station and loosely rests upon theupper edge of the nose 8, in surrounding relationship to the paper roll.At the fourth station, the partially assembled cartridge is carriedbeneath a presser roller I which will push the cartridge snugly intopartly telescoped engagement with the nose, the cartridge shell beingslightly flared or beveled at its lower edge and having tight frictionalt with the reduced portion of the nose when pressed downwardly by theroller l5, The cartridges 6 will be discharged rom the conveyor bygravity as indicated. The recipient of the cartridge will pull the nose8 from the shell and remove the message.

I claim as my invention:

The method of assembling message holders of cartridge-like form, thathave nose and body portions with telescopic fit, comprising the steps ofdropping a cup-like nose portion in upwardlyexposed position, into amold-like member having a cavity of reduced diameter at its lower end,for loose lit with the nose portion, dropping a paper message roll intothe said nose portion, and, thereafter placing a peripherally-flangedcartridge shell into a widened portion of said cavity and intotelescopic relation with the paper roll and the upper part of the nose,and finally pressing the cartridge shell into the cup-like nose portionuntil the flange of such shell abuts the upper periphery of such noseportion.

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